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| Wiggum's seen too many Monopoly-related crimes in his life. |
The Republican Party nulls all environmental laws in Springfield. The massive and sudden increase in pollution creates an acid rain, scalding all who come in contact with it. The Simpsons stay inside and, with the acid rain having dissolved their TV antennae, decide to play a game of Monopoly. The family bickers during the game, and it escalates when Homer starts choking Bart for a quip he made. Marge and Lisa try to break it up, but it doesn't stop it, and Maggie has no choice but to make the call to police. They arrive and are able to subdue the family and arrest them - all of them - for domestic abuse.
In jail, the family meets Gabriel, a social worker who Homer continues to believe is an angel. Gabriel observes the family to identify their personalities and such. After some time, Gabriel takes the family hiking, but hides their lunch up near the top of a tall tree. Gabriel insists that each person's weakness can be compensated if they work together as a family to retrieve the lunch. Homer, upon learning there's beer, just rams the tree with his car instead, causing it to fall, dragging Gabriel down a cliff. With hungry wolves and cheetahs at the bottom, the family works together to save Gabriel's life. With the family now in harmony, it seems not only is Gabriel's job done, but the weekly misadventures of the family may finally come to an end.
However, returning home from the trip, Homer finds his and Ned Flanders' old Vegas wives, who have tracked the two down. Learning that Homer did marry in Vegas, Gabriel leaves in disgust, and after Homer is unable to annul his Vegas marriage, Marge kicks Homer out of the house, also in disgust. Amber (Homer's Vegas wife) stays with Homer in Bart's tree house while Ginger (Ned's Vegas wife) attempts to life with Ned, Rod and Todd.
Marge refuses to speak to Homer, more furious about this than any other nonsense Homer had done in the past. After a couple of nights, Marge sees Homer act pathetically outside and decides to let him back in to talk. Soon, Amber overhears Marge and Homer argue intensely, and Homer decides to leave his family, taking Amber down to Moe's to 'start a new life', though this is quickly revealed as part of a ploy by Marge and the kids. Homer gets Amber liquored up at Moe's, pretty badly at that. The next morning, a hungover Amber learns to her horror that she married - and had a wild night with - Grampa. With the wedding taped as proof, the thought of being stuck with Grampa drives Amber nuts, and she runs out. With Ginger also sick of Ned and his family's goodness, the two women go back to Vegas. The Simpsons worked together to rid themselves of Homer's Vegas wife, and they can enjoy how senile Grampa continues to be.
Quick Review
This ended up being an alright episode. Its a bit of a disjointed episode: the 'unite the family by having them work together' plot prevalent early in the episode gets abandoned for a bit - Gabriel never does return - though it is revisited at the end as the family works together to rid themselves of Amber. The Vegas wife callback kinda feels forced in, where it feels like the writers couldn't pull a "Gabriel deals with the Simpsons" storyline for a full episode so it concludes it early so that they could bring in a new conflict to fill the rest of the time. The episode provides some laughs, though, so its got that going for it.
Final Score: 7.4
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